Between Disaster and Foreign Interference: Lessons in Peace and Solidarity in the Wake of the Earthquake in Venezuela
Written by IPB Council Member and WBW Latin America Organizer Gabriel Aguirre – Caracas, August 5, 2026 Imagine returning home after a holiday and realizing you’ve lost everything: family, friends, acquaintances, your home, everything you once thought would be forever. This was the...
Speech by Reiner Braun on Hiroshima Day, 6 August 2026, in Berlin at the Peace Bell
Translated using Deepl. Attached below is the original speech in German Dear friends, 6 August 1945, 8.15 am, a sunny day in Hiroshima, already hot even in the morning; hundreds of thousands were on their way to work, to school, to university – tired and exhausted after all those years of war. In...
Hiroshima International Declaration
2026 World Conference against A and H Bombs Declaration of International Meeting The world now stands at a critical crossroads: between war and nuclear catastrophe on the one hand, and peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons on the other. The use of force in violation of the Charter of the United...
Two Speeches from the World Conference Against A- and H-Bombs 2026
Two speeches by IPB Co-President and CPDCS Director Joseph Gerson, given on August 3rd and 4th, 2026, at the World Conference Against A and H Bombs in Hiroshima, Japan. Conference Speech By Joseph GersonHIroshima, August 4, 2026 Minosan Konichiwa. Friends, it was a pleasure to work with Gensuikyo in...
IPB Condemns Benin’s Cancellation of the World Social Forum and Repression of International Delegates
UPDATE August 6 – Beninese authorities have since reversed the cancellation. See more here. The International Peace Bureau (IPB) expresses its deepest concern and regret with the sudden, unexpected, and undemocratic decision of the government of Benin to cancel the World Social Forum and to...
